Warning: If Toting Baggage Into a Blessed Future

Warning: If Toting Baggage Into a Blessed Future "Fear Jehovah and serve him with integrity and faithfulness". 'In a blameless way.' 'In truth.' Josh. 24:14. *** "Jehovah is great and most worthy of praise; His greatness is unsearchable. Generation after generation will praise your works; They will tell about your mighty acts." Ps. 145:3, 4. *** "You open your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing." Ps. 145:16. *** "They will not toil for nothing, Nor will they bear children for distress, Because they are the offspring made up of those blessed by Jehovah, And their descendants with them. Even before they call out, I will answer; While they are yet speaking, I will hear." Isa. 65:23, 24. *** Sighted--freedom! On a glorious horizon bright with possibilities-- Finally a home of our own. Children in safety to roam. Sustenance and covering not on loan. A brotherhood international. Not alone. Then we arrive as we were; as we are. In our chest/breasts again: a heart hardened; marred; scarred. Not changed. Personalities difficult-- Not rearranged. Moons cycle. Glorious thunder during refreshing rains. Yet, the present again, in our minds, becomes blackened; deranged. Begins mental pain. Conduct 'pure 'holy'-- A strain. As a sun shines. As children play. As cattle graze. As we see others study, meditate, congregate, pray... It doesn't have to be this way. Remember what Jehovah, through Moses, did say to his people ancient Who 'us' do portray: “Now you must keep the commandments of Jehovah your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For Jehovah your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, springs and fountains flowing in the valley plain and in the mountainous region, a land of wheat and barley, of grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, a land where food will not be scarce and you will lack nothing, a land where the stones contain iron and from its mountains you will mine copper." "“If you should ever forget Jehovah your God and you walk after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I do bear witness against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that Jehovah is destroying before you, that is how you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God." Deut. 8:6-9; 19, 20. *** "Now these things became examples for us, in order for us not to desire injurious things, as they desired them. Neither become idolaters, as some of them did; just as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to have a good time.” Neither let us practice sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, only to fall, 23, 000 of them in one day. Neither let us put Jehovah to the test, as some of them put him to the test, only to perish by the serpents. Neither be murmurers, as some of them murmured, only to perish by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have come." 1 Cor. 10:6-11. *** "For the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment." John 5:28, 9. *** "For anyone who dies at a hundred will be considered a mere boy, And the sinner will be cursed, even though he is a hundred years of age." Isa. 65:20. *** "Happy is the man who does not walk according to the advice of the wicked And does not stand on the path of sinners And does not sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, And he reads His law in an undertone day and night. He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, A tree that produces fruit in its season, The foliage of which does not wither. And everything he does will succeed. The wicked are not like that; They are like the chaff that the wind blows away. That is why the wicked will not remain standing in the judgment; Nor will sinners remain standing in the assembly of the righteous. For Jehovah is aware of the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish." Ps. 1:1-6. *** "Now if it seems bad to you to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, whether the gods that your forefathers served on the other side of the" 'Great Tribulation' "or the gods of the" 'old system of things' in whose land you are dwelling. But as for me and my household, we will serve Jehovah.” Josh. 24:15. 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